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>> elise, the timing to some is suspect. i mean, hillary clinton throws herself under the bus for the obama administration on the eve of this big presidential debate. what did she have to say about that? >> reporter: well, i mean, in fact, it was the white house, i wouldcy, this kind of threw the state department under the bus over the past week. vice president biden during the debate said we didn't know about those security requests and the white house started calling around to reporters and saying listen, that's the state departme department's function. at the end of the day, yes, it is the state department security professionals that are in charge of, you know, finding out what adequate resources are needed for various posts. you know, the vice president or president are not brief ed on every little post. but, you know, benghazi was a high-threat post. there was a growing threat of extremism and groups that are related to al qaeda. there is activity in libya. republicans are saying, yes, you know, senator mccain and senat
>> elise, the timing to some is suspect. i mean, hillary clinton throws herself under the bus for the obama administration on the eve of this big presidential debate. what did she have to say about that? >> reporter: well, i mean, in fact, it was the white house, i wouldcy, this kind of threw the state department under the bus over the past week. vice president biden during the debate said we didn't know about those security requests and the white house started calling around to...
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elise, where do we go from here? >> good question, john. yesterday was something i haven't seen in my 12 years of the state department. this hearing really became politicized and a lot of people talking at the state department were upset that ambassador stephens death. there were a lot of important issues that came up at the hearing yesterday. chief among them, whether the consulate was adequately protected. let's take a listen to what the chairman, daniel issa said yesterday in response to state department claims that the consulate had an adequate amount of guards. let's take a listen. >> to start off by saying you had the correct number, and our ambassador and three other individuals dead and people in the hospital recovering because it only took moments to breach that facility somehow doesn't seem to ring true to the american people. >> so, john, of course, the state department saying, listen, even if we had extra guards, and, in fact, some of the security officers that were testifying yesterday saying listen, not necessarily sure the sa
elise, where do we go from here? >> good question, john. yesterday was something i haven't seen in my 12 years of the state department. this hearing really became politicized and a lot of people talking at the state department were upset that ambassador stephens death. there were a lot of important issues that came up at the hearing yesterday. chief among them, whether the consulate was adequately protected. let's take a listen to what the chairman, daniel issa said yesterday in response...
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>> elise labott in lima, peru. the secretary of state in a news-making interview. thanks so much, elise. >> ten minutes past the hour. dangerous drug or good medicine? coming up, the court case that could help put pot on the path to legalization. ah. fire bad! just have to fire roast these tomatoes. do you churn your own butter too? what? this is going to give you a head start on your dinner. that seems easier sure does who are you? [ female announcer ] new progresso recipe starters. five delicious cooking sauces you combine with fresh ingredients to make amazing home-cooked meals. ♪ ambiance [ female announcer ] new progresso recipe starters. your head-start to home cooked. it'll cause cavities, bad breath. patients will try and deal with it by drinking water. water will work for a few seconds but if you're not drinking it, it's going to get dry again. i recommend biotene. all the biotene products like the oral rinse...the sprays have enzymes in them. the whole formulation just works very well. it leaves the mouth feeling fresh. if i'm happy with the results and
>> elise labott in lima, peru. the secretary of state in a news-making interview. thanks so much, elise. >> ten minutes past the hour. dangerous drug or good medicine? coming up, the court case that could help put pot on the path to legalization. ah. fire bad! just have to fire roast these tomatoes. do you churn your own butter too? what? this is going to give you a head start on your dinner. that seems easier sure does who are you? [ female announcer ] new progresso recipe...
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good morning, elise. was there a definitive no way, not how, not ever running for president, and why does she say she's quitting if she is in fact saying? >> well, she wouldn't be the first politician, john, to say that she's not running and then run. but secretary clinton, you know, she's tired, john. she's been on the road. you know, she's been in politics first as first lady, then as senator, now secretary of state, at a frantic pace, traveling around the world. it's not the first time she's said this. but in a recent interview with "marie claire" magazine said i've been on this high wire of national and international politics and leadership for 20 years. it's been an absolutely extraordinary personal honor and experience. but i really just want to have my own time back. i want to just be my own person. i'm looking forward to that. and, john, traveling with her for the past 3 1/2 years, it's really a frantic pace. never really letting go. she tires all of us with her. and you know, bill clinton, her hu
good morning, elise. was there a definitive no way, not how, not ever running for president, and why does she say she's quitting if she is in fact saying? >> well, she wouldn't be the first politician, john, to say that she's not running and then run. but secretary clinton, you know, she's tired, john. she's been on the road. you know, she's been in politics first as first lady, then as senator, now secretary of state, at a frantic pace, traveling around the world. it's not the first time...
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elise, good morning. how much of a bombshell is this, what secretary clinton has now said, the buck stops with me in a nutshell? >> well, soledad, i think what she's trying to do are a couple of things. i think she's trying to end the political firestorm. i mean, you heard from chris stevens' dad just a few weeks ago -- days ago that ambassador, saying listen his death is being politicized. and you heard, you know, vice president biden kind of distancing himself from the state department, saying we didn't know about those requests for extra security. take a listen to what secretary clinton said when i asked her whether the white house, whether the administration, is throwing her state department under the bus. >> i take responsibility. i'm in charge of the state department. 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts. the president and the vice president certainly wouldn't be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. they're the ones who weigh all of the threats
elise, good morning. how much of a bombshell is this, what secretary clinton has now said, the buck stops with me in a nutshell? >> well, soledad, i think what she's trying to do are a couple of things. i think she's trying to end the political firestorm. i mean, you heard from chris stevens' dad just a few weeks ago -- days ago that ambassador, saying listen his death is being politicized. and you heard, you know, vice president biden kind of distancing himself from the state department,...
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foreign affairs correspondent elise is with us this morning. how much do they reveal about what intelligence officials in washington knew on that particular day? >> well, zoraida, everyone admits in the fog of what's going on, what turned out what we thought the initial night didn't turn out to be what happened. but it definitely describes in realtime what the embassy thought was going on. the first e-mail, let's take a look, the subject, u.s. mission in benghazi under attack september on september 11th at 4:00 eastern time, which would be 10:00 in tripoli. the embassy reports 20 armed people fired shots, explosions have been heard as well. ambassador stephens currently in benghazi and four mission personnel are in the compound safe havens. then later an update, u.s. mission in benghazi sent a half hour later. the embassy tripoli reports the firing at the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi has stopped and the compound has been cleared. a response team is on the site attempting to locate com personnel. initially they thought the firing had stop
foreign affairs correspondent elise is with us this morning. how much do they reveal about what intelligence officials in washington knew on that particular day? >> well, zoraida, everyone admits in the fog of what's going on, what turned out what we thought the initial night didn't turn out to be what happened. but it definitely describes in realtime what the embassy thought was going on. the first e-mail, let's take a look, the subject, u.s. mission in benghazi under attack september on...
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what else do you expect from the hearing, elise? >> i think there's going to be a lot of questions about the timeline, about why the administration originally called it a spontaneous protest gone awry. i think there will be a lot of questions about the security that ambassador stephens and his team had asked for, not just in benghazi but also in the whole country of tripoli. and also about whether there were any warning signs, we know there were no warning signs at night. the intelligence community is looking for specific evidence that there was a planned attack, but if you see what happened in the months leading up to the attack, there was an attack in june with the ied and several other attacks on western targets on the british ambassador, on the united nations and the international committee of the red cross, and the question being here, did the intelligence community, did the embassy and its security personnel miss the signs here? was there a storm brewing that nobody was able to take care of in the end? >> thank you, elise, liv
what else do you expect from the hearing, elise? >> i think there's going to be a lot of questions about the timeline, about why the administration originally called it a spontaneous protest gone awry. i think there will be a lot of questions about the security that ambassador stephens and his team had asked for, not just in benghazi but also in the whole country of tripoli. and also about whether there were any warning signs, we know there were no warning signs at night. the intelligence...
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elise, thank you. as if to underscore reporting now, today, just today, a yemeni security official working for the u.s. embassy in yemen, killed on his way to work. yemeni officials suspect it's an al qaeda attack. this is the yemeni national, not an american, but working for the americans. in choosing the right plan for your needs. so don't wait. call now. whatever your health coverage needs, unitedhealthcare can help you find the right plan. open enrollment to choose your medicare coverage begins october 15th and ends december 7th. so now is the best time to review your options and enroll in a plan. medicare has two main parts, parts a and b, to help cover a lot of your expenses, like hospital care... and doctor visits. but they still won't cover all of your costs. now's the time to learn about unitedhealthcare plans that may be right for you. are you looking for something nice and easy? a medicare advantage plan can give you doctor, hospital and prescription drug coverage all in one plan... for noth
elise, thank you. as if to underscore reporting now, today, just today, a yemeni security official working for the u.s. embassy in yemen, killed on his way to work. yemeni officials suspect it's an al qaeda attack. this is the yemeni national, not an american, but working for the americans. in choosing the right plan for your needs. so don't wait. call now. whatever your health coverage needs, unitedhealthcare can help you find the right plan. open enrollment to choose your medicare coverage...
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. >> let's go now to foreign affairs reporter elise labott. this was quite a heated hearing. >> it was. basically there was so much political grandstanding, don, it was really hard to get at what was really important that eric nordstrom and lieutenant colonel andy wood, the top security support team official saying, listen, we kept talking to the state department, asking them for resources and we got the feeling that until there was an attack, we weren't going to get any resources. eric nordstrom, finishing that quote you just put up there saying, look, how thin does the ice have to be before someone falls through? a lot of charges yesterday. but a lot of interesting information coming out. >> i'm sure the state department is responding to these claims of lack of planning. what are they saying? >> they're saying that they thought the consulate had adequate security personnel for the amount of threat that was out there. when they look at some of the other attacks that were out there. what they were saying was we could not have prevented even wi
. >> let's go now to foreign affairs reporter elise labott. this was quite a heated hearing. >> it was. basically there was so much political grandstanding, don, it was really hard to get at what was really important that eric nordstrom and lieutenant colonel andy wood, the top security support team official saying, listen, we kept talking to the state department, asking them for resources and we got the feeling that until there was an attack, we weren't going to get any resources....
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>> you know, elise, i take a very different view of this. i have now for 20 years been very much in the administration decision making, first with my husband then after 9/11 working with president bush now of course on president obama's cabinet. in the wake of an attack like this in the fog of war, there's always going to be confusion. and i think it is absolutely fair to say that everyone had the same intelligence. everyone who spoke -- >> bad intelligence it seems then. >> well, everyone who spoke tried to give the information that they had. as time has gone on, the information has changed. we've gotten more detail. but that's not surprising. that always happens. and what i want to avoid is some kind of political gotcha or blame game going on because that does a disservice to the thousands and thousands of americans not only in the state department and usaid but in the military who serve around the world. everyone wants to make sure they are as safe as possible but they are doing the job they were sent out to do. >> ambassador stevens' fat
>> you know, elise, i take a very different view of this. i have now for 20 years been very much in the administration decision making, first with my husband then after 9/11 working with president bush now of course on president obama's cabinet. in the wake of an attack like this in the fog of war, there's always going to be confusion. and i think it is absolutely fair to say that everyone had the same intelligence. everyone who spoke -- >> bad intelligence it seems then. >>...
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so, then, elise, what is it? do you get a sense that heads will roll once answers start to come out from what happens at these hearings? >> well, don, i think you need to separate the political from the serious investigative as to what went wrong. i mean, the democrats, representative cummings we just heard from are charging that the way that this hearing is being investigated is in a political way, that the democrats on the committee are not being given witnesses, not being given testimony or documents and basically are excluding the democrats because they want to run this through right before the elections. what the republicans are saying is listen, something went very wrong here. there were warnings that were missed. some documents have been leaking out, some of them obtained by cnn, that show that senior security officers did send warnings and messages to the state department asking for additional security for benghazi, for libya, in general, and those requests were ignored. we're going to hear today from a f
so, then, elise, what is it? do you get a sense that heads will roll once answers start to come out from what happens at these hearings? >> well, don, i think you need to separate the political from the serious investigative as to what went wrong. i mean, the democrats, representative cummings we just heard from are charging that the way that this hearing is being investigated is in a political way, that the democrats on the committee are not being given witnesses, not being given...
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foreign affairs reporter elise labott is live from washington, d.c. this morning. so walk us through, if you will, elise, this e-mail chain that we now know. >> soledad, these are the first communications that we've seen coming from the administration about what was happening in the attack in no this first e-mail comes from the state department operations center, to people in the white house situation room, the pentagon, the fbi, and it's at about 10:00 tripoli time, 4:00 eastern time, saying u.s. tripoli -- u.s. benghazi under attack, embassy tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots, explosions have been heard, as well. ambassador stevens, who is currently in benghazi, and four mission personnel are in the compound safe haven. the 17th of february militia is providing security support. now, soledad, the next e-mail, which came out about a half hour later, said that the shots had stopped, and that all was actually calm, and you know, response team was trying to locate those personnel. but we now understand that those militants had actually breached
foreign affairs reporter elise labott is live from washington, d.c. this morning. so walk us through, if you will, elise, this e-mail chain that we now know. >> soledad, these are the first communications that we've seen coming from the administration about what was happening in the attack in no this first e-mail comes from the state department operations center, to people in the white house situation room, the pentagon, the fbi, and it's at about 10:00 tripoli time, 4:00 eastern time,...
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the secretary of state sat down with cnn's elise labott in lima, peru, last night, and, yes, she took responsibility for last month's attack on the consulate in benghazi that left four americans dead including the u.s. ambassador and brought the obama administration a lot of criticism, so just here is what she told us. >> i take responsibility. i'm in charge of the state department. 60,000 plus people all over the world, 275 posts, the president and the vice president certainly wouldn't be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. >> let's keep talking about this with julian pikue, reporter from the hill. good to see you. certainly not lost in all of this is the timing, the timing of the news, made on the eve before the incredibly important presidential debate. i read this morning in all of the reading that people are going back and forth about this news, somebody was saying this is really just an opportunity for her to give extra breathing room to the president tonight. do you agree? >> well, i mean, as we know, you know we're just hours away fro
the secretary of state sat down with cnn's elise labott in lima, peru, last night, and, yes, she took responsibility for last month's attack on the consulate in benghazi that left four americans dead including the u.s. ambassador and brought the obama administration a lot of criticism, so just here is what she told us. >> i take responsibility. i'm in charge of the state department. 60,000 plus people all over the world, 275 posts, the president and the vice president certainly wouldn't...
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cnn foreign affairs reporter elise labott live in washington for us this morning. got lots of questions for you. so first off, what are the vulnerabilities of both men given the focus on foreign policy tonight? and what does each of these men need to accomplish? >> well, zoraida, i think for president obama, he has some very good successes to deal with. he can deal with the killing of osama bin laden. this pivot to asia, which i think has had some very good successes in terms of the u.s. being very -- the u.s. being very strong in asia, and kind of countering china. but i think that some of the vulnerabilities that president obama has and certainly mitt romney will be able to pounce on these tonight, are what's going on in the middle east. you have the crisis in syria going on right now. thousands of people, over 30,000 people being killed. u.s. not really having a big plan for dealing with that. and also, certainly, the attack in libya, on the u.s. consulate in libya. there are questions remaining about how the u.s. dealt with intelligence and security leading up
cnn foreign affairs reporter elise labott live in washington for us this morning. got lots of questions for you. so first off, what are the vulnerabilities of both men given the focus on foreign policy tonight? and what does each of these men need to accomplish? >> well, zoraida, i think for president obama, he has some very good successes to deal with. he can deal with the killing of osama bin laden. this pivot to asia, which i think has had some very good successes in terms of the u.s....
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elise is in washington d.c. as i was reading the introduction to you john berman was like -- >> nobody believes her. >> there are folks who say even though she says she is not requitting folks say they believe she will run for the presidentancy an presidency. >> she did this interview in which she said i have been on this high wire of national and international politics and leadership for 20 years. it has absolutely been an extraordinary honor and experience but i really just want to have my own time back. i want to just be my own person. she is tired. i'm tired from traveling with her. >> come on. you don't believe that. really? i'm tired. >> i think she believes it right now. i think the frantic pace over the last 3 1/2 years is grueling. traveling with her for the last years is exhausted. after resting and recharging and her supporters coming out of the woodworks and maybe next year saying it has to be you if we are going to get a woman president. a lot of aides told me if she decides to run they would drop e
elise is in washington d.c. as i was reading the introduction to you john berman was like -- >> nobody believes her. >> there are folks who say even though she says she is not requitting folks say they believe she will run for the presidentancy an presidency. >> she did this interview in which she said i have been on this high wire of national and international politics and leadership for 20 years. it has absolutely been an extraordinary honor and experience but i really just...